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21 <a href="index.html">Table of contents</a>
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23 <h1><font color="#3E1220">SliTaz Handbook (en)</font></h1>
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28 <div class="content-right"></div>
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29
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30 <h2><font color="#DF8F06">Multimedia</font></h2>
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31
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32 <ul>
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33 <li><a href="#intro">SliTaz sound and video.</a></li>
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34 <li><a href="#config">Configure the sound card.</a></li>
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35 <li><a href="#alsamixer">Alsamixer</a> - Mixer.</li>
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36 <li><a href="#alsaplayer">Alsaplayer</a> - Audio Player.</li>
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37 <li><a href="#asunder">Asunder</a> - Audio CD Ripper.</li>
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38 <li><a href="#xine">Xine</a> - Multimedia Player.</li>
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39 <li><a href="#mpg123">mpg123</a> - Command line audio player.</li>
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41
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42 <a name="intro"></a>
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43 <h3>SliTaz sound and video</h3>
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44 <p>
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45 SliTaz LiveCD mode provides sound support, but no video player, however you can watch YouTube by installing
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46 the <code>get-flash-plugin</code> package. To watch videos you can use Xine, it supports most formats such
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47 as avi, mov, mpeg etc, note Xine can also act as an audio player. At the sound level, you have a mixer
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48 (alsamixer) and audio player (alsaplayer), both installed by default on standard CD. SliTaz also provides
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49 tools to configure your sound card.
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50 </p>
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51
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52 <a name="config"></a>
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53 <h3>Configure the sound card</h3>
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54 <p>
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55 In LiveCD mode SliTaz automatically configures the sound card by launching a dialog, in most cases the sound
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56 card is instantly recognized and you just press ENTER to continue to login and have your sound working.
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57 However, sometimes your card is not recognized at startup or simply not supported. Before throwing in the
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58 towel, you can try to manually configure your card by asking for help on the discussion list or on the
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59 hardware support forum.
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60 </p>
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61 <h4>Soundconf</h4>
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62 <p>
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63 To configure or reconfigure a sound card, SliTaz provides a script (<code>soundconf</code>), this utility
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64 is used at startup and doesn't pose any questions, supports the right modules and automatically configures
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65 <code>/etc/rsS.conf</code> so that the right driver is loaded on each start. Soundconf will also
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66 automatically adjust volume levels, you can change the settings later through the mixer and
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67 <code>alsactl</code>. To start the sound configuration interface, you must have administrator priviledges
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68 and type:
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69 </p>
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70 <pre>
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71 # soundconf
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72 </pre>
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73 <h4>Alsactl</h4>
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74 <p>
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75 Alsactl controls <code>alsa</code> and can store settings or restore sound for example, to retain
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76 preferences for each start. When configuring sound with soundconf, volumes are automatically adjusted, you
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77 can use <code>alsamixer</code> as <em>root</em> to change the values and then launch <code>alsactl</code>
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78 to store the configuration:
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79 </p>
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80 <pre>
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81 # alsactl store
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82 </pre>
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83 <p>
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84 To restore the configuration, you can use the <code>alsactl restore</code> command or to restore your
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85 preferences at each startup you can edit /etc/init.d/local.sh with your favorite text editor or simply
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86 'echo' the changes:
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87 </p>
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88 <pre>
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89 # echo 'alsactl restore' > /etc/init.d/local.sh
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90 </pre>
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91
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92 <a name="alsamixer"></a>
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93 <h3>Alsamixer</h3>
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94 <p>
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95 Alsamixer is the official mixer of the Alsa project. It is simple and effective and can be run from the
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96 menu or directly from a terminal. The volumes can be regulated with the up/down arrows or muted using
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97 the <code>m</code> key. To start from a Linux terminal:
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98 </p>
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99 <pre>
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100 $ alsamixer
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101 </pre>
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102
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103 <a name="alsaplayer"></a>
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104 <h3>Alsaplayer</h3>
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105 <p>
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106 The audio player Alsaplayer is designed to be simple, clean and intuitive. Alsaplayer on SliTaz provides
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107 support for ogg, mp3 (via libmad) and wav files, playlists and viewers to accompany sound and the ability
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108 to adjust pitch and volume. Once launched from the menu just click the play button or load a playlist to
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109 start.
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110 </p>
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111
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112 <a name="asunder"></a>
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113 <h3>Asunder - Audio CD Ripper</h3>
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114 <p>
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115 Asunder retrieves and encodes audio tracks from a CD. The toolkit is simple and easy to use encoding
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116 songs into wav, ogg or mp3 (via <code>lame</code> package). It can search CDDB, create a playlist and
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117 edit file names. You will find Asunder in the Multimedia category on the menu.
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118 </p>
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119
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120 <a name="xine"></a>
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121 <h3>Xine</h3>
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122 <p>
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123 Xine is a multimedia project providing various video viewers and audio players. SliTaz provides libraries
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124 and a media player contained in the package <code>xine-ui</code>. Xine uses a Xlib interface, a control
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125 panel, a right click configuration menu and various plugins. It can play ogg, mp3 and flac audio codecs
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126 and mov, avi or mpg video formats. To install xine and it's dependancies:
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127 </p>
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128 <pre>
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129 # tazpkg get-install xine-ui
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130 </pre>
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131 <p>Official Xine <a href="http://xinehq.de/index.php/home">website</a>
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132 </p>
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133
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134 <a name="mpg123"></a>
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135 <h3><font color="#6c0023">mpg123</font></h3>
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136 <p>
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137 Mpg123 is a command line audio player and file converter. This means that you can listen to music or
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138 convert files from a terminal, to display help (<code>--help</code>).
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139 To play a mp3 file, just launch <code>mpg123</code> followed by the name of the audio file:
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140 </p>
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141 <pre>
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142 $ mpg123 sound.mp3
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143 </pre>
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144 <p>
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145 Mpg123 can also encode a file into another format, for example you can convert
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146 a wav file into a mp3 file. Example:
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147 </p>
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148 <pre>
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149 $ mpg123 -w sound.mp3 sound.wav
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